Run fdotoolbox on Linux

[MrSnyder]

Thanks for fdotoolbox!

Is there any information on getting this software running on Linux?

[jumpinjackie]

FDO Toolbox does not run on Linux. This is a hard problem because our FDO .net wrappers are mixed assemblies, which have no possibility to run on Linux via Mono.

The only ways to have FDO Toolbox in Linux are:

• Re-write the whole thing in Qt/C++ tapping into the native FDO C++ API (that is multi-platform) instead of the .net wrapper we use (that is windows-only).
• Somehow rewrite the FDO .net wrappers to be a pure P/Invoke based approach, and then fix FDO Toolbox to work against this "pure" .net wrapper instead.

Both options are sadly not trivial exercises. One is a full rewrite, the other is open-heart surgery.